My XMLTV list includes many categories that Plex ignores. Please dynamically build a set of categories from the XMLTV file, and allow the EPG to filter based on those categories rather than the fixed series, movies and news categories.

Make program cateogies dynamic based on XMLTV files

tom80H Closed February 21, 2024, 10:51pm 3

2024 clean-up: duplicate (while this suggestion was around for longer, the newer one has more votes)

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